To:THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR MILITARY AFFAIRS

Written:Written on January 17 (30), 1918Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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17. I. 1918

Pleaseissue to the Commissar of the Finlandskaya
Railway 25,000 rifles and 30 machine-guns, required for theprotection of Russian soldiers in Finland against the
atrocities of whiteguard bourgeois detachments.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, Council of People’s Commissars